Physics Quotes

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)

Alan Sokal

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Isaac Newton

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi

Luis Walter Alvarez

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

George Gordon Byron

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Isaac Newton

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.

Mohammed Ali

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime's habit made him inconveniently watchful for his own name. He saw it as if in bold. It could leap out at him from an unread double page of small print, and sometimes he could sense it coming before the page turn.

Ian Mcewan

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

Stephen Hawking

Nothing happens until something moves.

Albert Einstein

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight.

Evangelista Torricelli

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Albert Einstein

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Blaise Pascal